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Scary Monsters and Super Freaks

Mike Sager is to drugs, porn, and crimes of desperate delusion what Dominic Dunne is to the society murder. In addition to his long-classic Rolling Stone story "The Devil and John Holmes" (which helped inspire the Val Kilmer film Wonderland) and his groundbreaking GQ piece about murdered Irish investigative reporter Veronica Guerin (also the subject of a major film starring Cate Blanchett), Scary Monsters and Super Freaks is a wonderful rogue's gallery of up-close pieces about the most public failures of the American dream.

From ground zero of the deadliest wildfire in California history to the cozy living room of super-spokesmodel Brooke Burke; from the recording studio with gangsta-rap pioneer Ice Cube to the tour bus with the Satanic metal band Slayer; this tough but lyrical collection of 17 stories, by award-winning Esquire writer-at-large Mike Sager, brings into sharp focus the rich but confusing state of post-21st-century American life - its values, virtues, obsessions, and hypocrisies.

A stellar second collection from a writer who has been called "the beat poet of American journalism - that rare reporter who can make literature out of shabby reality."